Bachaqueo chronicles
Two items today on the smuggling of gasoline from Venezuela to Colombia – commonly known as bachaqueo. Both are in Spanish. This first-person account by Colombian journalist Sinar...
Two items today on the smuggling of gasoline from Venezuela to Colombia – commonly known as bachaqueo. Both are in Spanish. This first-person account by Colombian journalist Sinar...
I read the Fair Prices Law and I got a huge migraine. I wrote about it for FP (the law, not the migraine). The value added: “The effect of...
As reported in earlier posts, the ongoing newsprint shortage crisis has been deepening in the last few weeks with more newspapers closing shop, and others being forced to...
The decision by the editors of The Economist to name their new weekly column on Latin America after Andrés Bello came as a soothing elixir to my beat-up...
Note: This 2014 article is now outdated. Please read a more current assessment of OVV’s estimates—together with our own, Caracas Chronicles estimate of the violent death rate—here. As Interior...
Venezuelans are angry, and they well should be. Beyond that, though, there is a question that has been lingering in my mind for quite some time – will...
First it was Air Europa. Then Iberia, Lufthansa, Air France, Avianca (Colombia), Tame (Ecuador), Air Canada, Aerolíneas Argentinas, TAP (Portugal), COPA (Panama), American and United. One after the...
The word “peace” is in the air… more or less. Last weekend, the government did a series of events under the theme “Peace and Life”. It was pretty...
Aporrea made for uncommonly schadenfreudy reading this weekend as the collective penny dropped for middle class chavismo that their own prized shard of the petrostate piñata is now...
In Time Magazine, Girish Gupta gets a rare chance to expose Distortioland in all its contradictory glory. Venezuela [is] simultaneously one of the most expensive and one of...
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